LIVE OAK (CBSMiami/AP) — The timber business is booming in northeast Florida with demand booming for the natural resource worldwide. The towering grove of century-old longleaf pines surrounding ...

Hundreds of landowners in Florida are left with too much timber with nowhere to go, thanks to 'perfect storm' of a hurricane and mill closure.

In this Tuesday, July 28, 2015 photo, timber land owner Roger Ward, left, measures an area of seedling slash pines with Brain Cobble of the Florida Forest Service in Live Oak, Fla. Ward has ...

The Florida Forest Service estimates that Michael left roughly 72 million tons of rotting timber on the ground. About 13 percent has been cleared in what is expected to be a five to seven-year effort.

Florida's timber industry is in trouble. After hurricanes, mill closures, can it be saved? 'As tree planters, we’re the world's greatest optimists, because we plant trees not knowing what the ...

Tons of timber are rotting on the Florida Panhandle a year after Hurricane Michael smashed through the region. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

Timber prices are rising as demand grows for timber used in building, paper products and biofuels worldwide. Prices for Florida saw pine peaked around 2005 — before the housing bust and the ...

The demand for timber worldwide is booming and this remote section of Florida, along with other timber-growing regions of the southeastern U.S., are benefiting.

Slash pine trees almost ready for harvest are shown July 28 in front of a field of newly planted seedlings in Live Oak, Florida. The demand for timber worldwide is booming.